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After a strong earthquake hit Taiwan on January 21, 2025, an old picture of a tilting building resurfaced in social media ...

As South Korea battled a spike in flu cases, misinformation swirled online that the country was suffering a resurgence of the ...

If Mark Carney wins the Liberal Party of Canada's leadership race, he would become prime minister without being a member of Parliament -- a situation some social media users claim would keep him from ...

As deadly wildfires raged through Los Angeles, California in January 2025, social media users claimed a video showed ...

Copyright © AFP 2017-2025. Any commercial use of this content requires a subscription. Click here to find out more. Amid a decade-long push by African countries to ...

With just weeks to go to the African Union (AU) election, posts circulating online are claiming Djibouti’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf has withdrawn from the race for the ...